rust Synonyms & Antonyms

Rust in a Sentence

The rust on my bicycle chain made cycling to work very dangerous.

copper rust

rust:  

The patio furniture had rusted in the wind-driven spray.

The wind-driven spray had thoroughly rusted the patio furniture.

My knowledge of Spanish has rusted over the years.

It's very common for black cats to rust during the summer.

aerugo. Green or blue-green copper rust; verdigris. (American Heritage Dictionary, 1973)

iron rusts

Most men would … have allowed their faculties to rust.

the leaves slowly rusted

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

Years of storage in the damp basement rusted the tools.

The old car was left to rust in the yard of the abandoned house.

Word Forms & Grammar

rust

rusts

rust·ed

rust·ing

rusted

rusting

rust (countable and uncountable, plural rusts)

rust (third-person singular simple present rusts, present participle rusting, simple past and past participle rusted)

Words That Rhyme With Rust

Origin of Rust

Origin 1: Middle English, from Old English rūst; akin to Old English rēad red red

Origin 2: From Middle English rust, rost, roust, from Old English rust, rūst (“rust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rust, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz (“rust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rudʰso- (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).

Origin 3: Cognate with Scots roust (“rust”), Saterland Frisian rust (“rust”), West Frisian roast (“rust”), Dutch roest (“rust”), German Rost (“rust”), Danish rust (“rust”), Swedish rost (“rust”), Norwegian rust, ryst (“rust”), Finnish ruoste, Estonian rooste. Related to red.

Origin 4: From Middle English rusten, from the noun (see above).

First Known Use

before 12th century

13th centuryi